ANIMALS DIE OF COLD
Support A1+!Although Gyumri branch of the State Museum of Nature is gasificated, it has not been heated since the day of its foundation. Some animals live in the employees’ or the director’s houses during the winter months. The Museum is hardly surviving owing to the employees.
The thermometer is installed right in the hall where the unique samples of nature continue their existence. Pigeons and guinea-pigs, living in the Museum, may be registered in the Red Book, as frost-resistant animals, since only they have managed to survive in such conditions.
Fish live in more or less better conditions, since the necessary temperature of the aquarium is maintained by electric energy. But there were many cases when the director had to take the fish to his home, since the Museum did not have electric energy.
Food for the animals is bought by the employees. The most frost-resistant animals in the Museum are pigeons, guinea-pigs and fish. Parrots and canaries live in the director’s house.
Gyumri branch of the State Museum of Nature was founded 16 years ago and is located in the building of sport-cultural center in Gyumri. The Yerevan mother Museum pays only the salaries of the employees and electric energy expenses. Visits to the Museum are free.
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